Airrack, who boasts almost 15 million subscribers on YouTube, issued a response after a fellow creator claimed to have exposed him “faking” his videos.
YouTuber Airrack, whose real name is Eric Decker, has grown significantly on the platform in the past few years and currently has over 14.8 million subscribers. His videos include things like trying foods from every country, “surviving” days in obscure places and pranking random people.
His success has gone so far that fellow YouTuber MrBeast has predicted Airrack to be the next YouTuber to reach 100 million subscribers on the platform.
Airrack appeared in a Wired interview in April 2023, where he answered a question about whether or not he’d ever faked one of his YouTube videos, to which he said he had not. However, not everyone believed that answer was the truth.
Airrack responds to accusations of faking videos
YouTuber Soggy Cereal made a video about Airrick’s recent challenge where he documented travelling around the world in 30 days. In the series, Airrick vlogs his trip around the world, visiting places like Italy, Dubai, and
“Sure your videos are of high quality, but you’re manipulating and exploiting your audience,” Soggy Cereal said in the video to Airrack.
In the first video of Airrack’s series, he is seen partnering with MrBeast, who would permanently delete Airrack’s challenge if he failed to go around the world in 30 days throughout the month of December while also uploading daily videos of his journey to YouTube.
Soggy Cereal then spends the rest of the video accusing Airrack of faking the video, claiming that some shots proved it was filmed months before December. These shots include being able to see the date as December on Airrack’s watch, them eating meat that expired in September, and being in Switzerland in December and there not being any snow on the ground.
They also met with several other people across the series, including a group of 50 competitive eaters in Australia. But one of these competitive eaters posted their own vlog from the event onto YouTube on November 18, which proves it was filmed in advance, according to Soggy Cereal.
Airrack left this comment on video calling him out: “Yo appreciate the feedback! we are out shooting the series as we speak but as I mentioned in the videos, some of them were shot before the series so we could give ourself a head start to edit and make the vids as good as possible.
“Biggest lesson is to more clearly communicate ‘uploading every day while I travel around the world’ I think I could have been more clear in the exact constraints for sure. Appreciate the feedback a bunch and hope you guys enjoy the back half of the series.”
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Airrack accused of doxxing and faking donations to small town
On February 4, Soggy Cereal posted a second video about Airrack where he accused him of lying, doxxing, and faking donations in a video series posted in 2021.
In the first videos mentioned, where Airrack traveled to Angle, Minnesota, to not only raise awareness of the town, which struggled throughout the Covid lockdowns but also to travel across the ice to get to it.
Soggy Cereal not only accused Airrack of lying about where they were, which he claimed to be in Baudette which is on the other side of the icy lake. Soggy Cereal also claimed that the cabin Airrack and his crew were staying in also was the Sportsman Lodge which is located in Baudette, and not in Angle like they’d claimed in the video.
Soggy Cereal also accused Airrack of doxxing the pilot who helped them travel across the icy lake in the video. The pilot said he didn’t want to be filmed and wanted his voice changed so that he could not be identified.
But according to DMs to Soggy Cereal, the “fake name” they used for the pilot was actually his real name, and they made it appear as if he was more annoyed and angry than he was in real life.
A DM sent to Soggy Cereal explained: “The pilot […] was also actually a real guy named [redacted], and he asked them not to use his name and they lied about that.”
Another DM said: “[The pilot] got hella beef with Eric. […] The company basically hates him because he made it seem like the plane wouldn’t start.
“It’s a beaverplane, it starts 100% of the time, every time, with no issues.
“And the voice in the background of [the pilot] getting mad at the plane, that was [someone else]. Eric made [someone else] text him a voice memo.”
Airrick has yet to respond to these claims. Dexerto has contacted Airrack for comment.
